Blood will tell. Or, as we say in Italian, good blood doesn’t lie. The guys of the renowned Boston store Bodega have once again proved their skills and, in this case, they managed to achieve the impossible: to pick an ordinary GR model (considered by many worth to be just a “beater”) and to transform it into an iconic limited release.

Usually this kind of collaborations focus on some flashy (or plainly weird) colorway, often exposing some logos on the shoe, but here we can see how they went further, leaving all gimmicks aside in order to make room for a quiet, yet vibrant cosmic allure. Taking inspiration from Stanley Kubrick‘s sci-fi masterpiece “2001: A Space Odissey” (1968), these adidas Consortium ZX Flux are really something different. Our Boston-based friends picked the orange and the yellow from the space suits worn in the movie and used them on the leather lining and on the outsole, while the black woven upper and the deep black suede that covers the heel and the tongue represent the fascinating void of deep space. The only Bodega branding is visible on the lace caps and beneath the pull tab.